Waylaid White IPA
Coronado Brewing Company

 

Gold colour with a good head and lacing. Citrus hop nose. Lighter body with more Belgian yeast on finish than strong hoppiness.

 

 

 

Poured from 12oz bottle into Spiegelau Belgian Style Tulip. Bottled on April 6th 2017.

L: Clear metallic yellow, finger and a half white head has decent retention. Nice lacing.

S: Belgian yeast, I don't smell the Citra hops but the Hallertau Blanc definitely shine here. Definitely smells Belgian.

T: Okay, I am quite confident they used some Pilsner malts in here and they really take charge sadly. The Belgian yeast notes and floral, herbal and citrus hop notes are nice but too subtle to label this as an IPA. This to me is more like a Belgian Pale Ale. Still tasty though! Just not as advertised.

F: Light bodied, crisp (Belgian Carbonation), semi-dry.

O: This is good beer, not as advertised yet tasty.

12oz bottle poured into a tulip. Pours a cloudy and hazy yellowish golden; big fluffy and chunky eggshell white head that falls very slowly leaving great thick retention and frothy sticky lacing. Sediment is there. The aromas are yeast forward. Some bright citrus notes along with some fresh grass. Mild earthy and herbal notes. Malts are there. The flavors are clean, crisp and refreshing. Some orange and lemon is there with some subtle hints of grapefruit. More fresh grass. The yeasts shine without being overwhelming. Mild spice notes. Alcohol goes unnoticed. Mouthfeel is nice. It's on the lighter side of medium-bodied with fluffy active carbonation. It's very fluffy, smooth and easy to drink.

This is a nice Belgian IPA. The hops are there, but are balanced and don't steal the show. The craftsmanship is on point. It's probably even better than my "numerical score" might indicate. Enjoyable stuff.

22oz bottle - I know 'waylaid' is a proper English term, but, well, y'know. Cuing some retro Bloodhound Gang at the moment.

This beer pours a hazy, pale golden straw colour, with a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some decent high-flying webbed lace around the glass as it lazily subsides.

It smells of dank pine resin, gritty and grainy barley and wheat malt, muddled domestic citrus flesh (including some sexier pineapple), well-restrained earthy yeast, a touch of hard water flintiness, some middling clove and black peppercorn spice, and further leafy, weedy, and perfumed floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready pale malt, a lesser edgy wheatiness, some musty pineapple, orange, and lemon citrus fruitiness, mixed and matched earthy spice notes, a fading estery yeastiness, and more earthy, herbal, and gently perfumed floral verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its mostly just supportive frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, with a kind of clammy creaminess poking its nose in right from the get-go. It finishes off-dry, the malt, exotic fruit, and yeast insisting on a sort of a menage a trois thing - look away, if you must, I know I am.

Overall, this is an OK-seeming brew, one that doesn't exactly lord the yeasty character all over my hop-expectant palate. Easy enough to drink, I suppose, but a bit tiring after a spell, like I've been, oh, what's that word again...?

Hazy amber brew with a fine-grained white foam in the tall goblet. Brewer says it's made with Citra and Hallertau Blanc hops. Distinctive clove aroma from the wheat malt. On the tangy side, which along with the spritzy mouthfeel makes for a lively gulp.

Delicious pineapple flavor with a potent clove afterburn through the nose. Still it's quite interesting and plenty drinkable. Just a little strong flavored for more than a glass. Bitter yeasty finish adds to the austerity after the lush fruit. From the 32 oz growler purchased at the San Diego brewery.